Grunter71
21-08-2006, 07:28 AM
Headed out to the Banks early Saturday morning for the first time in about 18 months.
Left Brissie about 1 am, and finally anchored up on a spot about 4.30. Couldn't get over the number boats out there at that time of the morning.
Before the sun came up we got a heap of pearlies, none of which were size.
We had been berleying since arrival and as the sky was starting to lighten, a school of AJ's moved into the berley trail devouring each bait as it was fed down to them. My daughter soon got sick of getting down over by them so had a rest for a little while. I got 4 AJ's about 6 - 8 kilos and 1 YTK of the same size. Kept one of the AJ's in case we didn't find anything else.
After they disappeared we had a number of snapper in the berley trail. Over the next hour we landed 3 snapper 5 - 6kg, plus a couple of squire. My daughter out fished me, again, with the biggest 2 snapper. Bugger.
Once the berley ran out the fish seemed to disappear, so we tried drifting a few spots to see if we could add to the esky.
Weren't having any luck so packed it in and was back home at 1.30.
Not a huge day, but we were pretty happy with the catch.
Left Brissie about 1 am, and finally anchored up on a spot about 4.30. Couldn't get over the number boats out there at that time of the morning.
Before the sun came up we got a heap of pearlies, none of which were size.
We had been berleying since arrival and as the sky was starting to lighten, a school of AJ's moved into the berley trail devouring each bait as it was fed down to them. My daughter soon got sick of getting down over by them so had a rest for a little while. I got 4 AJ's about 6 - 8 kilos and 1 YTK of the same size. Kept one of the AJ's in case we didn't find anything else.
After they disappeared we had a number of snapper in the berley trail. Over the next hour we landed 3 snapper 5 - 6kg, plus a couple of squire. My daughter out fished me, again, with the biggest 2 snapper. Bugger.
Once the berley ran out the fish seemed to disappear, so we tried drifting a few spots to see if we could add to the esky.
Weren't having any luck so packed it in and was back home at 1.30.
Not a huge day, but we were pretty happy with the catch.